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Jos Olivier
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Retired scientist* on greenhouse gas emission sources and energy use: estimates, trends, targets, climate, mitigation & science (incl global pollution). RT ≠ endorsement. Born ±315 ppmv CO2. *Formerly at Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency (#PBL).
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Jos Olivier @josolivier.bsky.social · Dec 29
IPCC chart that provides the road map for an escape from catastrophe. It assesses with extraordinary clarity the potential for emissions cuts of more than 40 options:
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Jos Olivier @josolivier.bsky.social · 2h
Overconsumption and ruin: before and after images visualise how tech could harm our planet.
From Venice to the Iguazu Falls, an exhibition in London illustrates the hidden cost of our gadgets and devices.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Overconsumption and ruin: before and after images visualise how tech could harm our planet
From Venice to the Iguazu Falls, an exhibition in London illustrates the hidden cost of our gadgets and devices
www.theguardian.com
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Jos Olivier @josolivier.bsky.social · 2h
Shipping emissions levy shelved as countries bow to US pressure.
Long-planned charge on greenhouse gas emissions postponed as Trump officials accused of intimidation tactics.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Shipping emissions levy shelved as countries bow to US pressure
Long-planned charge on greenhouse gas emissions postponed as Trump officials accused of intimidation tactics
www.theguardian.com
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Jos Olivier @josolivier.bsky.social · 2h
World’s oceans losing their greenness through global heating, study finds.
Researchers say decline in phytoplankton suggests weakened planetary capacity to absorb carbon dioxide.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
World’s oceans losing their greenness through global heating, study finds
Researchers say decline in phytoplankton suggests weakened planetary capacity to absorb carbon dioxide
www.theguardian.com
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Jos Olivier @josolivier.bsky.social · 2h
October heat records broken across Australia as Sydney braces for temperatures way above the norm.
Birdsville sets new high as BoM forecasts more record hot weather, with heatwave warnings in place in some states.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
October heat records broken across Australia as Sydney braces for temperatures way above the norm
Birdsville sets new high as BoM forecasts more record hot weather, with heatwave warnings in place in some states
www.theguardian.com
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Jos Olivier @josolivier.bsky.social · 3d
Record leap in CO2 fuels fears of accelerating global heating.
CO2 in air hit new high last year, with scientists concerned natural land and ocean carbon sinks are weakening
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Record leap in CO2 fuels fears of accelerating global heating
CO2 in air hit new high last year, with scientists concerned natural land and ocean carbon sinks are weakening
www.theguardian.com
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Jos Olivier @josolivier.bsky.social · 3d
World’s oceans losing their greenness through global heating, study finds
Researchers say decline in phytoplankton suggests weakened planetary capacity to absorb carbon dioxide
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
World’s oceans losing their greenness through global heating, study finds
Researchers say decline in phytoplankton suggests weakened planetary capacity to absorb carbon dioxide
www.theguardian.com
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Jos Olivier @josolivier.bsky.social · 7d
‘Dismal’ health of world’s forests is threat to humanity, report warns:
Financial institutions pouring money into land clearance and undermining efforts to stop destruction, says Climate Focus.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
‘Dismal’ health of world’s forests is threat to humanity, report warns
Financial institutions pouring money into land clearance and undermining efforts to stop destruction, says Climate Focus
www.theguardian.com
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Jos Olivier @josolivier.bsky.social · 7d
Rechts van het politieke midden komt de verduurzaming tot stilstand:
Doorrekening verkiezingsprogramma’s VVD en NSC steunen verduurzaming vooral met woorden en niet met plannen, volgens het Centraal Planbureau. Een overzicht van de klimaatplannen van de partijen.
www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2025/...
Rechts van het politieke midden komt de verduurzaming tot stilstand
Doorrekening verkiezingsprogramma’s: VVD en NSC steunen verduurzaming vooral met woorden en niet met plannen, volgens het Centraal Planbureau. Bij groenere partijen als D66 en Volt is het risico dat b...
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Jos Olivier @josolivier.bsky.social · 7d
Juridische strijd over getallen over Gaza: CIDI wil rectificatie, NOS weigert:
Terwijl de emoties oplopen, verdedigt de NOS zichzelf in de rechtszaal tegen het CIDI. Het geschil draait niet louter om een getal: het gaat ook over beeldvorming in oorlogstijd.
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Juridische strijd over getallen over Gaza: CIDI wil rectificatie, NOS weigert
Terwijl de emoties oplopen, verdedigt de NOS zichzelf in de rechtszaal tegen het CIDI. Het geschil draait niet louter om een getal: het gaat ook over beeldvorming in oorlogstijden.
www.nrc.nl
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Jos Olivier @josolivier.bsky.social · 7d
Millions more homes in Great Britain at risk of flooding, investigation finds:
Every constituency projected to be at greater risk, with many areas likely to be uninsurable.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Millions more homes in Great Britain at risk of flooding, investigation finds
Every constituency projected to be at greater risk, with many areas likely to be uninsurable
www.theguardian.com
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Jos Olivier @josolivier.bsky.social · 7d
Almost all external insulation in the UK fitted under Tory scheme needs repair or replacing, report finds.
Homeowners who took advantage of government programmes left with cladding likely to cause damp.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Almost all external insulation fitted under Tory scheme needs repair or replacing, report finds
Homeowners who took advantage of government programmes left with cladding likely to cause damp
www.theguardian.com
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Jos Olivier @josolivier.bsky.social · 8d
The plastic inside us: how microplastics may be reshaping our bodies and minds.
The particles are in our blood, brains and guts – and scientists are only beginning to learn what they do.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
The plastic inside us: how microplastics may be reshaping our bodies and minds
The particles are in our blood, brains and guts – and scientists are only beginning to learn what they do
www.theguardian.com
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Jos Olivier @josolivier.bsky.social · 8d
Trump calls climate science a ‘con job’. That could make tackling the crisis a whole lot easier - Francesco Grillo
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Trump calls climate science a ‘con job’. That could make tackling the crisis a whole lot easier | Francesco Grillo
Europe and Brazil have a rare opportunity, unimpeded by the US, to make a success of Cop30 – and reshape the world order, says Francesco Grillo of the European University Institute, Florence
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Jos Olivier @josolivier.bsky.social · 8d
Planet’s first catastrophic climate tipping point reached, report says, with coral reefs facing ‘widespread dieback’.
Unless global heating is reduced to 1.2C ‘as fast as possible’, warm water coral reefs will not remain ‘at any meaningful scale’, report warns.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Planet’s first catastrophic climate tipping point reached, report says, with coral reefs facing ‘widespread dieback’
Unless global heating is reduced to 1.2C ‘as fast as possible’, warm water coral reefs will not remain ‘at any meaningful scale’, a report by 160 scientists from 23 countries warns
www.theguardian.com
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Jos Olivier @josolivier.bsky.social · 8d
New Zealand accused of ‘full-blown climate denial’ over cuts to methane reduction targets.
Farmers praised the move, but scientists and opposition parties criticised it as ‘weak’ and ‘unambitious’.
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...
New Zealand accused of ‘full-blown climate denial’ over cuts to methane reduction targets
Farmers praised the move, but scientists and opposition parties criticised it as ‘weak’ and ‘unambitious’
www.theguardian.com
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Meade Krosby @meadekrosby.bsky.social · 8d
This shouldn't happen to any child regardless of status.
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ICE kidnapped a 7th-grader with a pending asylum claim and spirited him out of state without notifying his parents, seemingly with the cooperation of the local police in Everett, MA.

www.bostonglobe.com/2025/10/12/m...
Everett 13-year-old arrested by ICE and sent to Virginia detention facility By Marcela Rodrigues Globe Staff,Updated October 12, 2025, 44 minutes ago 31 A 13-year-old boy was arrested by ICE in Everett and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia. A 13-year-old boy was arrested by ICE in Everett and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia. A 13-year-old boy was arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents in Everett after an interaction with members of the Everett Police Department and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia, according to his mother and immigration lawyer Andrew Lattarulo. The boy’s mother, Josiele Berto, was called to pick her son up from the Everett Police Department on Thursday, the day he was arrested. After waiting for about an hour and a half, she was told her son was taken by ICE, Berto told the Globe in a phone interview. “My world collapsed,” Berto said in Portuguese. From the police department, the boy was taken to ICE’s holding facility in Burlington on Thursday evening, where he spent a night before being transferred by car to the Northwestern Regional Juvenile Detention Center in Winchester, Va., on Friday morning, his mother said. The juvenile facility is more than 500 miles away from Everett. The boy is a 7th-grader at Albert N. Parlin School in Everett, his mother said. The teen and his family, who are Brazilian nationals, have a pending asylum case and are authorized to work legally in the United States, Lattarulo said.
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Jos Olivier @josolivier.bsky.social · 8d
High-resolution ‘fingerprint’ images reveal a weakening Atlantic Ocean circulation (AMOC).
The #AMOC is the reason for Europe’s mild climate. Evidence that it is slowing has been piling up over the years, and it may even be approaching a tipping point.
www.realclimate.org/index.php/ar...
RealClimate: High-resolution ‘fingerprint’ images reveal a weakening Atlantic Ocean circulation (AMOC)
RealClimate: The #AMOC is the reason for Europe’s mild climate. Evidence that it is slowing has been piling up over the years – it now is likely at its weakest in at least a millennium, and it may eve...
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Jos Olivier @josolivier.bsky.social · 12d
Annual Review of Environment and Resources Volume 50, 2025
Are Carbon Offsets Fixable? By Joseph Romm, Stephen Lezak and Amna Alshamsi
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Are Carbon Offsets Fixable?
This article provides a systematic review of the literature on carbon offsets. A growing number of studies have found that the most widely used offset programs continue to greatly overestimate their p...
www.annualreviews.org
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Jos Olivier @josolivier.bsky.social · 12d
GHG emissions of all world countries: 2025 report.
Without Land Use, land Use Change and Forestry, the 2024 data experienced an increase of 1.3% or 665 Mt CO2eq compared to the levels in 2023.
edgar.jrc.ec.europa.eu/report_2025
EDGAR - The Emissions Database for Global Atmospheric Research
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Jos Olivier @josolivier.bsky.social · 12d
Carbon offsets fail to cut global heating due to ‘intractable’ systemic problems, study says.
Analysis of 25 years of evidence shows most schemes are poor quality and fail to lower emissions.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Carbon offsets fail to cut global heating due to ‘intractable’ systemic problems, study says
Analysis of 25 years of evidence shows most schemes are poor quality and fail to lower emissions
www.theguardian.com
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Jos Olivier @josolivier.bsky.social · 12d
UK plastic waste exports to developing countries rose 84% in a year, data shows.
Campaigners say increase in exports mostly to Malaysia and Indonesia is ‘unethical and irresponsible waste imperialism’.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
UK plastic waste exports to developing countries rose 84% in a year, data shows
Campaigners say increase in exports mostly to Malaysia and Indonesia is ‘unethical and irresponsible waste imperialism’
www.theguardian.com
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Jos Olivier @josolivier.bsky.social · 13d
Global renewable energy generation surpasses coal for first time.
Record solar expansion and steady wind growth driving world’s shift away from fossil fuels in 2025, report finds.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Global renewable energy generation surpasses coal for first time
Record solar expansion and steady wind growth driving world’s shift away from fossil fuels in 2025, report finds
www.theguardian.com
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Jos Olivier @josolivier.bsky.social · 13d
UN plastics treaty chair to step down with process in turmoil.
Exclusive: Luis Vayas Valdivieso says he is quitting for personal and professional reasons after reports of pressure behind the scenes.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
UN plastics treaty chair to step down with process in turmoil
Exclusive: Luis Vayas Valdivieso says he is quitting for personal and professional reasons after reports of pressure behind the scenes
www.theguardian.com
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Jos Olivier @josolivier.bsky.social · 13d
Glacier melt will lead to ice-free peaks in California for first time in human history.
New research shows massive glaciers in Sierra Nevada projected to melt away by the beginning of the next century.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Glacier melt will lead to ice-free peaks in California for first time in human history
New research shows massive glaciers in Sierra Nevada projected to melt away by the beginning of the next century
www.theguardian.com
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Jos Olivier @josolivier.bsky.social · 13d
Media and political attacks on Australia’s emissions targets ‘straight out of the climate obstruction playbook’, expert says.
Prof Christian Downie points to the Business Council of Australia and News Corp newspapers as examples of deliberate obstruction.
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
Media and political attacks on Australia’s emissions targets ‘straight out of the climate obstruction playbook’, expert says
Prof Christian Downie points to the Business Council of Australia and News Corp newspapers as examples of deliberate obstruction
www.theguardian.com
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